Tuesday February 23, 7:45 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Unisys and Compu-Dawn Announce Marketing Alliance to Provide Complete Public Safety Solutions
BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 1999--Unisys Corporation and Compu-Dawn, Inc.'s public safety division today announced a marketing alliance that couples Unisys state-of-the-art enterprise servers with Compu-Dawn's customized computer applications designed for use in law enforcement and public safety, empowering agencies with quick and reliable access to critical information.
The powerful combination of Unisys servers and Compu-Dawn's software solutions will allow agencies to more efficiently utilize the capabilities of the ALECS 2000 (Advanced Law Enforcement Computer Solutions), Compu-Dawn's suite of applications that provide powerful management tools for the public safety industry.
ALECS Mobile On-Line (AMO), a part of the ALECS 2000 suite, enables users to retrieve and process information across wireless and mobile computing environments. Among the modules offered are mobile applications such as mapping, crime analysis, database access, field reporting, mug shot transmission, lost or missing persons, vehicle location monitoring and automated ticket printing.
Through this agreement, Compu-Dawn's public safety division will be able to offer its clients a complete solution utilizing Unisys servers and extensive nationwide service capabilities to ensure a complete solution for their public safety applications.
''This alliance allows Unisys and Compu-Dawn to develop new clients in the public safety marketplace and offers new solutions to many existing Unisys clients in government and public safety agencies,'' said Rick Carbone, vice president, Business Partner Sales, Unisys Computer Systems. ''Unisys servers are the ideal match for Compu-Dawn's software applications: their high performance and high availability are critical, because their client's access to the types of information available through this solution will sometimes be a matter of life and death.''
''Our solutions, such as the ALECS 2000, provide an efficient and powerful tool that depends on state-of-the-art client/server technology. By offering our clients Unisys servers, we can together bring law enforcement computing into the 21st century, to the benefit of law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve,'' said Louis Libin, Chief Technology Officer of Compu-Dawn.
About Compu-Dawn
Compu-Dawn's (NASDAQ:CODI - news) public safety division is in the business of designing and developing applications of software products and systems for law enforcement agencies. Its e.TV Commerce Inc. subsidiary, with over 18,000 representatives, is in the business of Internet, e-commerce and telecommunications.
Access the Compu-DAWN home page on the World Wide Web - compudawn.com - for further information.
About Unisys
Unisys (NYSE:UIS - news) is more than 33,000 employees helping customers in 100 countries apply information technology to solve their business problems.
Unisys solutions are based on a broad portfolio of global information services including systems integration, outsourcing, ''repeatable'' application solutions, consulting, network integration, remote network management, and multivendor maintenance and support, coupled with enterprise-class servers and associated middleware, software and storage.
Repeatable solutions are focused on key vertical markets including financial services, transportation, telecommunications, government, publishing and other commercial markets. Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the Greater Philadelphia area, Unisys had 1998 annual revenue of $7.2 billion. Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web - unisys.com - for further information.
Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corporation. ALECS 2000 is a trademark of Compu-Dawn, Inc. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
